Opinion: Health Care: Lies Obama Told Me

Best of the Web Today columnist James Taranto on how ObamaCare is defrauding consumers. Photo credit: Associated Press.

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I ... I ... the andthe did to keep your health plan and now has more Americans are learning they don't get cheaper doctors' either James trying our best word to tell Mr. Cihra James we had the interesting op ed in our pages this week from my Avison be a cancer patient the ... saying basically because of Obamacare ... and ... then because of the new insurance exchange in California and its rules ... for insurer is getting out of the state and that means she is no longer going to be a will see the doctors that she's relied on to treat her cancer ... interesting reaction this week is this the story has been bounced around the media world well and fight for this are fast talking lol I bought White House Tuesday created out of ... a story yesterday from ... the cold think progress which has left wing group ... that said she's wrong she's in her piece is not credible it's the insurance companies fall ... well first of all as you point out the insurance companies responding to the incentive structure created by Obamacare ... second Obama made this five promise if you like your health plan you can keep it ... in the process of pride pushing for what was sold as comprehensive health care reform ... so this was the sort of saying that this lot was supposed to stop it turns out it's it's causing much more of an end pretty soon all of us are going to know somebody has got a cancellation letter from the entrance while ... I was a big part about that specifically this of ... I think part of the reaction against of ... Ms Sunday this week is that it is a sort of the suggestion that this is a ... bizarre circumstance and and that its explainable for very particular reasons but to ... this is actually a fairly sizeable number of people in the United States were talking about who may lose the coverage that they ... yes I it's un usual because the case you know the facts of the case for so striking trend has life stage for gallbladder cancer which has a two percent five year survival rate ... she's survived for seven years since her diagnosis of his beaten the odds ... and she needs to see these oncologists which ... aren't the spot available on any ObamaCare ... policy that she can buy a roll policies being canceled ... but ... I mean look Obama made this flat promise if you go if you like your health care plan you can keep it sometimes even punctuated it he said Kerry noted are we now know because it was published in our newspaper over the weekend ... that ... this was debated in the White House that politically inspired prevailed over the policy types who don't know exactly who these people are on the side of the detail the hung up about telling the truth Dr about what was a lot of but but they ... decided on this this they did not Obama did not miss speak as are our friends at the New York Times said ... this was carefully chosen and was carefully chosen knowing that it was deceptive ... so we're really talking about here and putting Barack Obama in charge of healthcare is like putting Bernie made off in charge of every one's finances will this is a massive consumer fraud ok if you read what did you read the story in the Journal if this was describing something going on in a private company ... right people would be going to prison for this for fraud ... politicians were are expected to lots of people shrug this off and say oh this is just the political lot and though it seems the president is sort of on the speaking tour last week in Boston the Bespoke again last night ... trying to suggest that ... actually he always said I think that that there were big EDF's ... and big exemptions to this blanket statement by its owners that otherwise it ... now he didn't say that he's now lying about his original I ... and use it to me what this really is is what's known as equivocation which is a logical fallacy an informal fallacy ... of changing the definitions ... are in order to suit your purpose so Barack Obama is the greater quip that are ... well and I think that we gotta read the pier but your point about how this is fraudulent behavior and punishable by prison ... if Bill invited private person acting in the markets I wonder if maybe there's an opening here too it too for Republicans to say ... they've if we take the rate of Obamacare what's agreed that the fraudulent claims made by the the government about ... about the insurance and and peoples of care should be a punishable ... Mr. on an idea out there don't have to endorse it but what did the innocent appalling double standard well it should have been punishable in twenty twelve election time that perhaps only punishable a future elections ... I'd you know when you have the government controlling in industry you lose the important consumer protection function the government to search ... you lose that regulation got government can